PGY-1 Didactics Curriculum (2026-2027)

PGY-1 Didactics 2026-2027 

7/1/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Overview with Chief Residents

Chief residents

2:00-3:00PM 

Intro to Residency with Program Director

Lauren Spring (SBUH residents)

Eduardo Constantino (ELIH residents)

 

3:00-4:00PM

Intro to CPEP

Poonam Gill

 

7/8/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

CPEP Series

Andrew Krebo

2:00-3:00PM

Restraints: Orders and Documentation 

Lauren Spring

3:00-4:00PM

The Psychiatric Evaluation

Ryan Montes, Romil Sareen, & Lauren Spring

 

7/15/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Cultural Psychiatry- Introduction

Wilfred Farquharson  

2:00-3:00PM

HI Risk

Ryan Montes

3:00-4:00PM

Introduction to Hospital-Based Social Work

Diana Fogarty & Maria Christiansen

 

7/22/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

The Psychiatric Evaluation

Ryan Montes, Romil Sareen, & Lauren Spring

2:00-3:00PM

Hospital-Based Social Work Continued

Diana Fogarty & Maria Christiansen

3:00-4:00PM

Introduction to Motivational Interviewing

Courtney O’Brien

 

 

 

 

7/29/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

CPEP Series

Andrew Krebo

2:00-3:00PM

Safety planning video & discussion

Lauren Spring  

3:00-4:00PM

Resident as a Teacher

Ilana Yel 

 

8/5/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Cultural Psychiatry: 
Concepts of Culture, Race, Ethnicity & Identity

Veronica Tapia

2:00-3:00PM

The Psychiatric Formulation (Bio-Psycho-Social Model)

Amit Patel

amitppatelmd@gmail.com

3:00-4:00PM

Mental Status Examination 

 

Andrew Yang 

 

 

 

8/12/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

The Psychiatric Evaluation

Ryan Montes, Romil Sareen, and Lauren Spring

2:00-3:00PM

Psychotic disorders  

Andrew Krebo 

3:00-4:00PM

Psychopharm Basics 

Saghir Ahmed

 

8/19/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

DSM-5 Psychotic Disorders Diagnostic Criteria

Jodi Weinstein

2:00-4:00PM

Intro to Psychopharmacology 

 

Eduardo Constantino

 

8/26/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

New Onset Psychosis, Prodromal and At-Risk States 

 

Roberto Gil

2:00-4:00PM

Interviewing Patients with Psychosis

Patricia Osborne & Peter Weiden

9/2/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

First Line Psychopharmacology for Psychotic Disorders

Andrew Krebo 

2:00-3:00PM

Residents as Role Models

Lauren Spring

3:00-4:00PM

Psychopharm Basics

Saghir Ahmed

 

9/9/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Bipolar Disorders

Matthew Sherman

2:00-3:00PM

Intro to Mood Stabilizers

Andrew Krebo

 

3:00-4:00PM

Managing Common Side Effects

Andrew Krebo

 

9/16/26 Wellness Afternoon

 9/23/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Cultural Self Awareness for Psychiatrists

Lauren Spring & Anna Coward

2:00-3:00PM 

Depressive Disorders

Benjamin DeLucia

3:00-4:00PM

Medication Management for Depressive Disorders

Amit Patel

amitppatelmd@gmail.com

 

9/30/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Eating Disorders

Marianne Tateosian  

2:00-3:00PM

Residents as Role Models

Patricia Osborne

3:00-4:00PM

Managing Common Side Effects

Andrew Krebo

 

10/7/26 – PRITE Exam – No lectures

 

 

 

 

 

 

10/14/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Sexual Orientation: definition of terms & taking a sexual history with LGBTQ. The Importance of language and pronouns

Patricia Osborne & Jonathan Grossman 

2:00-3:00PM

Eating disorders

Genna Hymowitz and Patricia Osborne 

 

3:00-4:00PM

Tobacco-Related Disorders

Omer Talpur

 

10/21/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

Emily Hill

2:00-3:00PM

The SAFE Act

Laura Fochtmann

3:00-4:00PM

Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders

Walter Piddoubny

Walter.piddoubny@gmail.com 

 

10/28/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Poonam Gill

2:00-3:00PM

Working with Pregnant Patients

Courtney Liebling

3:00-4:00PM

Neurocognitive Disorders

Walter Piddoubny

Walter.piddoubny@gmail.com 

 

11/4/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Dissociative Disorders

Mason Chacko

2:00-4:00PM

Anxiety Disorders 

Courtney Liebling 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11/11/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Overcoming Language Barriers: working with interpreters, translators and cultural brokers

 

Anna Coward & Jonathan Grossman

 

2:00-3:00PM 

Somatic symptoms & related disorders

Ilana Yel 

 

3:00-4:00PM

First-Line Medications for Sleep

Omer Talpur

 

 

11/18/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Addiction Psychiatry: General Review of Clinical Aspects and management

Jeremy Herschler

2:00-3:00PM

Interview Styles

Amit Patel

amitppatelmd@gmail.com

3:00-4:00PM

Medicine for Inpatient Psychiatry

Mason Chacko 

 

11/25/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:30PM

Sexual Dysfunctions & Paraphilic Disorders

Omer Talpur

2:30-4:00PM 

Working with Patients with Borderline Personality Disorders 

Andrew Yang

 

12/2/26

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Sleep Disorders

Satya Vatti 

2:00-3:00PM

Interview Styles

Amit Patel

amitppatelmd@gmail.com

3:00-4:00PM

Personality Disorders

Benjamin DeLucia

 

 

 

 

 

12/9/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Cultural Psychiatry: Take a stand: Social barometer activity & reflections 

Wil Farquharson

2:00-3:00PM 

Medication Treatment for Symptoms of Personality Disorders 

Emily Hill

3:00-4:00PM

Interview Styles

Amit Patel

amitppatelmd@gmail.com

 

12/16/26 Wellness Afternoon

12/23/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-4:00PM 

 Open for cancellations

 

 

12/30/26 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-4:00PM 

 Open for cancellations

 

 

1/6/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Overview with Chief Residents

Chief Residents

2:00-3:00PM 

Intro to Residency with Program Director

Lauren Spring (SBUH residents)

Eduardo Constantino (ELIH residents)

 

3:00-4:00PM

Restraints: Orders and Documentation

Lauren Spring

 

1/13/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Resident as a Teacher

Ilana Yel

2:00-3:00PM

The Psychiatric Evaluation

Ryan Montes, Romil Sareen, & Lauren Spring

3:00-4:00PM

CPEP Series

Andrew Krebo

 

 

1/20/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Cultural Psychiatry- Introduction

Wilfred Farquharson 

2:00-3:00PM

The Psychiatric Evaluation

Ryan Montes, Romil Sareen, & Lauren Spring

3:00-4:00PM

The Mental Status Examination 

 

 

Andrew Yang 

 

 

 

1/27/27 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:30PM

The Psychiatric Evaluation

Ryan Montes, Romil Sareen, & Lauren Spring

2:30-4:00PM

Introduction to Motivational Interviewing

Courtney O’Brien

 

 

2/3/27 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Introduction to Hospital-Based Social Work

 Diana Fogarty & Maria Christiansen

2:00-4:00PM

Intro to Psychopharmacology 

 

Eduardo Constantino

 

2/10/27 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

CPEP Series

Andrew Krebo

2:00-3:00PM

Psychopharm Basics

Saghir Ahmed 

3:00-4:00PM

The Psychiatric Formulation (Bio-Psycho-Social Model)

Amit Patel 

amitppatelmd@gmail.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/17/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Cultural Psychiatry: 
Concepts of Culture, Race, Ethnicity & Identity

Veronica Tapia 

2:00-3:00PM

Intro to Psychotic Disorders

Andrew Krebo

3:00-4:00PM

Hospital-based social work

 

Diana Fogarty & Maria Christiansen

 

2/24/27 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

DSM-5 Psychotic Disorders Diagnostic Criteria

Jodi Weinstein

2:00-4:00PM

Interviewing Patients with Psychosis

Patricia Osborne & Peter Weiden

 

3/3/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

New Onset Psychosis, Prodromal and At-Risk States 

 

Roberto Gil

2:00-3:00PM

Residents as Role Models

Lauren Spring

3:00-4:00PM

Safety planning video & discussion

Lauren Spring

 

 

3/10/27 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Psychopharm Basics 

Saghir Ahmed 

2:00-3:00PM

Residents as Role Models

Patricia Osborne

3:00-4:00PM

First Line Psychopharmacology for Psychotic Disorders

Andrew Krebo

 

3/17/27 Wellness Afternoon

 

 

 

 

3/24/27 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Cultural Self Awareness for Psychiatrists

Lauren Spring & Anna Coward

 

2:00-3:00PM

Intro to Mood Stabilizers

Andrew Krebo

3:00-4:00PM

Managing Common Side Effects

Andrew Krebo

 

 

3/31/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Bipolar Disorders 

Matthew Sherman

2:00-3:00PM 

Depressive Disorders

Benjamin DeLucia

3:00-4:00PM

Medication Management for Depressive Disorders

Amit Patel

amitppatelmd@gmail.com

 

4/7/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Eating Disorders

Marianne Tateosian

 

2:00-3:00PM

The SAFE Act

Laura Fochtmann

3:00-4:00PM

Managing Common Side Effects

Andrew Krebo

 

4/14/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Sexual Orientation: definition of terms & taking a sexual history with LGBTQ. The Importance of language and pronouns

Patricia Osborne & Jonathan Grossman 

2:00-3:00PM

Eating disorders

Genna Hymowitz and Patricia Osborne 

 

3:00-4:00PM

Tobacco-Related Disorders

Omer Talpur

 

 

 

 

 

 

4/21/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

Emily Hill

2:00-3:00PM

Interview Styles

Amit Patel

amitppatelmd@gmail.com

3:00-4:00PM

Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders

Walter Piddoubny

Walter.piddoubny@gmail.com

 

4/28/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Poonam Gill

2:00-3:00PM

Working with Pregnant Patients

Courtney Liebling

3:00-4:00PM

Neurocognitive Disorders

Walter Piddoubny

 

5/5/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Dissociative Disorders

Mason Chacko

2:00-3:00PM

Anxiety Disorders

Courtney Liebling

3:00-4:00PM

HI Risk

Ryan Montes

 

5/12/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Overcoming Language Barriers: working with interpreters, translators and cultural brokers

 

Anna Coward & Jonathan Grossman

 

2:00-3:00PM 

Sleep Disorders

Satya Vatti 

3:00-4:00PM

First-Line Medications for Sleep

Omer Talpur

 

5/19/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM 

Addiction Psychiatry: General Review of Clinical Aspects and management

Jeremy Herschler

2:00-3:00PM

Interview Styles

Amit Patel

amitppatelmd@gmail.com

3:00-4:00PM

Medicine for Inpatient Psychiatry

Mason Chacko 

 

5/26/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:30PM

Sexual Dysfunctions & Paraphilic Disorders

Omer Talpur

2:30-4:00PM 

Personality Disorders

Benjamin Delucia

 

6/2/27 Resident Retreat – No Classes

6/9/27:

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Somatic symptoms & related disorders 

Ilana Yel 

3:00-4:00PM

Working with Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder

Andrew Yang 

 

6/16/27

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00PM

Cultural Psychiatry: Take a stand: Social barometer activity & reflections 

Wil Farquharson

2:00-3:00PM 

Interview Styles 

 

Amit Patel 

amitppatelmd@gmail.com

3:00-4:00PM

Medication Treatment for Symptoms of Personality Disorders

Emily Hill

 

6/23/27:

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-4:00PM 

 Open for cancellations

 

 

6/30/27: No classes